One of our customers from the U.K. built the above beauty. The Sixteen year-old musician "Blues Beaten Redshaw" completed this example using a Res-O-Glas fiberglass body, tailpiece and modified pickguard. He combine our new parts with a 60's harmony pickup, the neck from a 60's Kay, the bridge is from a 60's Top Twenty guitar and the knobs are re-makes of the original Airline model. Not only is this guy a talented musician and builder, but it looks like he could be a photographer too! Thanks for sharing your build with us! Visit his site: bluesbeatenredshaw.com
"I am amazed with the quality and finish of your products and I would like to again thank you for the opportunity for me to build my own custom Res-O-Glas Airline' says Redshaw.
Giancarlo from Italy sent the above photos and following comments: "This is my "R-Fancyglas" guitar. The sound is great like the other my vintage Supro res-o-glas, but different. It has more character and versatility. I have built all wood parts using zebrawood ( neck, taipiece , the base of bridge. Fingerboard and logo on the headstock are ebony wood. I used plastic pearloid material to cover the headstock and taipiece, and to make the pickguard. I used Figured white pearl for inlays. The guitar has a traditional wiring for the vintage supro. It has 2 Seymour Duncan pickups : SP 90-2 (bridge and neck) with 2 indipendent volume control, 2 tone and 1 master volume control. It has another control knob for a passive overdrive. I build guitars and I can tell that this guitar is the best that I have made. The particular sound is given by the body. It has big fat sound, but you can customize your sound if you use different combinations of pickup, different kind of wood, scale lenght,etc. So you'll have your sound!"
"Thank you Dan! This guitar body is the tool for my art!!!"
"I am amazed with the quality and finish of your products and I would like to again thank you for the opportunity for me to build my own custom Res-O-Glas Airline' says Redshaw.
Giancarlo from Italy sent the above photos and following comments: "This is my "R-Fancyglas" guitar. The sound is great like the other my vintage Supro res-o-glas, but different. It has more character and versatility. I have built all wood parts using zebrawood ( neck, taipiece , the base of bridge. Fingerboard and logo on the headstock are ebony wood. I used plastic pearloid material to cover the headstock and taipiece, and to make the pickguard. I used Figured white pearl for inlays. The guitar has a traditional wiring for the vintage supro. It has 2 Seymour Duncan pickups : SP 90-2 (bridge and neck) with 2 indipendent volume control, 2 tone and 1 master volume control. It has another control knob for a passive overdrive. I build guitars and I can tell that this guitar is the best that I have made. The particular sound is given by the body. It has big fat sound, but you can customize your sound if you use different combinations of pickup, different kind of wood, scale lenght,etc. So you'll have your sound!"
"Thank you Dan! This guitar body is the tool for my art!!!"
Kevin in California sent us the above photo of a two pickup Res-O-Glas customized with just one tone and one volume control. He included the following comments: "The build is now complete and I can't believe the tone I'm getting out of it.... it sounds awesome! I'm using the Eastwood neck, Eastwood singlecoil pickups, and the Airline/Supro/National rosewood bridge replica you recommend. Attached is a picture. Thanks a lot for all of your help!"
Guy from the U.K. put the above beauty together. He said he always wanted a guitar that had no knobs and had to be controlled via pedals - this is what he came up with. We love it!
 | One of our favorite customers Clint Jackson sent us the photo at left. He has purchased three bodies from us over the last year (a red, a black and one of our ltd. edition orange bodies) This build combines a vintage Supro neck with our body, tailpiece and pickguard. We hope to get more photos of his other builds as they are completed! We'll let him describe this guitar in his own words... "Here is a pic of the first of three res-o-glas, that I have bought....... I got to say this guitar is FREAKIN SWEET....... I bought an Eastwood Coranado and used the neck and pickups from it. This, is truely a TONE MONSTER, I have been playing for over 15 years and during that time I have had a bad guitar fetish, and have owned every thing under the sun from Vintage to New, Gibson, Fender, etc, etc,etc. I was always unsatified, Then I came along your kits, and I must say "I truly love this guitar" It is everything I wanted in a guitar!" |
 | Clint's second Res-O-Glas project was completely different from his first. Working with a 2009 limited edition orange body with black binding, he built the guitar at left. To complete his build, Clint used an Eastwood Airline neck with Sperzel lock tuners, a single Lindly Fralin P-90 and 1 vintage Chicken Head knob. "I must say once again I am totally in love with guitar! This single pickup guitar is a freakin TONE MONSTER. It plays like a dream, I cant get enough of it. I have to split up my playing time between this one and the black double humbucker Res-O-Glas, I got from you guys. I play booth of my Res-o-Glas guitars, thru a vintage Marshall JTM Plexi. I gotta say this guitar, thru that amp is damn near as, good as it gets! IT"S FREAKIN SWEET!!!" |
Jeff Stoddard built the above beauty using a combination of Res-O-Glas, Vintage Airline and Eastwood Parts. Jeff said the following about his build: "It really did take all the tedious parts out of guitar building...Thanks for making a great kit! Please continue to make more of these fantastic Res-o-glas kits."
Grant in Maryland completed the black Res-O-Glas WL above. He estimate that it cost about $385 to build using a reissue Danelectro neck and GFS pickups. Upon its completion he stated... "It sounds great. Different than a wood guitar, more resonant or something. Bluesie, swamp rocky, garage rocky."You can read more comments about Grant and his first successful guitar build here.
"I finally finished my Res-O-Glas guitar and man have I been enjoying it! Building the guitar has been one of the most rewarding things I have ever done and I hope to build another one real soon. After getting the guitar finished I was so happy with it I took it into the studio with me and recorded lead tracks with it for my bands upcoming album. Thank you so much for bringing Res-O-Glas back and I can't wait to see what you come up with in the future.
Now, I built the guitar mainly using your parts and original Valco parts but I also used an Eastwood tone switch cover and a GFS PAF replica for the neck pickup. Hands down this guitar is my new favorite and I can't wait to put some miles on it on the road."
-Jared Claxon
Now, I built the guitar mainly using your parts and original Valco parts but I also used an Eastwood tone switch cover and a GFS PAF replica for the neck pickup. Hands down this guitar is my new favorite and I can't wait to put some miles on it on the road."
-Jared Claxon
Dave sends us photos of his build above. He says, "The neck is “some sort of old National head shaped thing. Pickups are Lollar the bridge was from Stew Mac and the knock-off Bigsby came from ebay." We love that you are recycling parts - looks great!
Kris built the Above Res-O-Glas Guitar using one of our bodies and a neck that he made himself. Going for the dead-on Jack White look, Kris drilled holes for the volume and tone pots but did not install them - similiar to Jack's favorite guitar. Pictured next to his new Res-O-Glas is a vintage Supro Res-O-Glas.
"I'm really pleased with the results - not only is it a beauty but it plays like a dream. I can't recommend your company highly enough - from the quality of your products (everything is topnotch) to your personalized and very fast customer service. I work in the recording industry and am taking every opportunity to recommend your products to colleagues and clients. Thanks again for a great buying experience."
-James, California
-James, California
Vincent from France built the above black beauty. He had these kind words to say after his project was completed:
"I would like to thank you for this perfect Resoglas repro! Thank you so much GuitarKitsUSA!"
CJ built this above beauty using a combination of Res-O-Glas and Eastwood parts. CJ is still a teenager and this was his first build. We were proud to be a part of it!
"Thanks for all of your help and a cool product GuitarKitsUSA!" CJ said.
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